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Or, just bear with me awhile here, or they saw a familiar drunk and asked him to do this for a couple of bucks to make a funny video. I have a cop buddy and he's a kind of a guy who'd totally do a sort of thing like that.

That is hilarious! I remember my dad telling me a story of him and a buddy of him driving across new mexico in the late 70's in a 50's panel van/camper truck. They were wasted one night and as my dad says drove from the bar like a couple miles out of town and then pulled over into the ditch and both slept it off. sensibly thing to do right?

well an hour later a cop comes up yells at them and makes them get in there truck and keep driving because the area was a flash flood spot or something. My dad says he's drunk and can't drive that's why they are parked. cop says he doesnt care, keep moving!

When my dad was growing up in Santa Fe he was pulled over. He and his friend had been drinking and they were just throwing the beer cans between the seats and the doors. The officer asks him if he's been drinking.

"No sir."

"Please step out of the car."

As you can imagine, there was just a torrent of empty cans. The cop made them sit on the curb for an hour; he came back to check on them.

Haha, yeah times are different. I remember when I was 9 and a drunk driver killed my aunt and paralyzed my cousin. And 4 years ago where my coworker was drunk Christmas weekend and ran into a family of four, killed everyone but the dad. It's too bad people get so bent out of shape over drinking and driving. Used to be so much simpler.

Times were different.. IIRC, there were substancially less deaths due to drunk driving per mile driven than there are in today's world. And just as we stopped smoking in hospitals...thank fully isn't accepted.

That's the exact opposite of what has happened. Drunk driving fatalities today are less than half of what they were a generation ago:

"In 2011, the rate of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities per 100,000 population was 3.2, representing a 65% decrease since 1982, when record keeping began, and 49% since the inception of The Century Council in 1991. What this translates into is, for every 100,000 people in the US in 2011, slightly more than three people were killed in a drunk driving fatal crash, a rate that has been cut almost in half over the past two decades - down from a rate of 6.3 in 1991." Source

Some of that can be explained by changing demographic factors (more older and female drivers who drink and drive less) and improved automobile safety technology (anti-lock brakes, airbags), but a large portion of the decline is due to increased enforcement of drunk driving laws.

My mom and her friend were driving home from a concert back in the day and were arguing over who was the less drunk to see who should drive, so they pulled over into the nearest parking lot. After a couple minutes of arguing, a cop came and knocked on their window; they'd failed to notice they'd pulled into a cop station. The cops just gave them a lift home and actually went in for beers with them at their hotel

Guys, I see this comment all the time and I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's blocked in Canada precisely because it's a Canadian show. Maybe because you have a better chance of actually buying the show? Or because Canada can enforce its copyright within its borders and not anywhere else? I really don't know but let's just all stop being surprised about this shit.

You may be working harder now. You may be more sociable with customers. Wait a while. It turns into you drinking to maintain the status quo. If you don't cut back now, it gets worse. Unchecked, it'll turn into drinking a pint of 100 proof to get to work.

Maybe I'm an extreme example, but my brother, cut it back to the weekends, or at least to a few shots a night. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to work drunk and thought I was the man. For the first few months, I was right. It deteriorated rapidly when I was kickin back 10 beers between shifts just to make it back to work in a functional state.

Downvote me to fuckall, Reddit, but you sound like me a few years back and I don't want to see you end up like me.

Xanax is an addictive tranquilizer with a tendency to cause depression among other things.

As to your post, don't kid yourself! Alcohol has a really noticable smell for non-drinkers, the Reese's don't cover it. I drove a taxi and didn't drink for 6 months; plenty of exposure to light and heavy drinkers.

I ain't gonna try giving any other advice. AlphaKat is right. Talk to your doctor.

Benzos and 'enjoy'... I have a condition called autonomic dysfunction and was prescribed a regular low dose of benzos to help cope with the (often distressing) symptoms. Xanax in particular was just... I don't have an addictive personality at all, but the physical withdrawal I went through afterwards was something else. Sweating, shaking, terrible vomiting, tachycardia, fever. For about a week. I know my condition was adding to it, but fuck. I can see how coming off a higher dose could kill you. They're fine for occasional use, but that's it.

Shit, this post reads like that bestof'd description of the path down heroin addiction. "Alcohol makes me feel normal..."

You're in the honeymoon phase of addiction, but the (false) idea that you can't function without alcohol has already taken hold. I hope you can get out before you start ruining lives. I applaud you for admitting it, that takes courage, but admitting it is just "the first step", as they say in AA. The hard part is changing your habits and beliefs. Don't go at it alone, get to therapy, group therapy is recommended for addiction, CBT and meditation can help you with anxiety. I wish you good fortune in this endeavour.

As a Registered nurse, a former narcotic addict, and child of a alcoholic. what you said is pretty classic addiction language. Your rationalizing use of alcohol so it doesn't seem like a problem. As I know, it's better to solve a problem before it gets out of hand. Although, I know that's harder to say than do. It took me getting to a pretty bad spot to get out of my hole I had dug myself into. Xanax, or benzodiazepines, essentially work on the same receptors that Alcohol does, the GABA receptors in the brain which depress the central nervous system. We actually give patients Lorazepam (cousin to Xanax) who are coming off alcohol withdrawl, otherwise the normally depressed brain can have fatal seizures. Don't listen to the asshat who told you not to talk to your physician because of insurance worries. Mitigating the damage while it's small, if none at all, is far better than destorying your life with persistant alcohol use. Therapy, some medications, and seeking other forms of mental help will be far better than augmenting yourself with alcohol.

Someone like you is precisely why marijuana should be legal. You could go to a doctor and explain it to them, drugs may be a better option than alcohol. Alcohol will create an addiction and does harm your body.

You sound like you're self-medicating for anxiety, like I did. I'm a person who is itching to be sociable, has jokes to tell, friends to make, but am constantly hampered by low-level anxiety. Xanax is supposed to help, but is habit-forming AND gives a sense of disinhibition/euphoria, meaning it's highly abusable and in some ways more enjoyable than drinking.

Definitely as a first step go see a therapist, and be honest about your alcohol abuse so that your doc knows not to give you any hardcore benzos (Xanax, Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, etc.).

I've been hospitalized for Xanax and have had friends go into comas and struggle with lifelong addictions, so just...be wary. It's a good bandage drug for PANIC EMERGENCIES, not an endgame or long-term solution for chronic anxiety.

I would say seek therapy. You are using alcohol to deal with your problem. Maybe it is something in your life that makes you anxious, stressed, awkward, and withdrawn? Maybe you are in the wrong line of work.. I am anxious at times, super awkward, quiet, and withdrawn, but I am an engineer. So, it is completely acceptable and I excel because I love it. I would be horrible at sales and incredibly unhappy.
I would suggest seeking help immediately and I honestly hope that you do. Alcoholism isn't worth it.

I had a manual transmission with a screwed up clutch and shifter mechanism. It was near impossible to find 1st and you'd often end up in reverse or third. As in I'm the only person I knew of that could drive it.

Back in my drinking days I drove that blacked out more than once. Never hit anything. Never pulled over for anything. Wised up to the stupidity of what I was doing and stopped drinking.

My dad was a functional pothead my entire life. (I didn't even find out until I was 24). Smoke before breakfast, smoke at lunch, smoke before dinner. I honestly didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

True story: I used to fix cars in a small rural town. Our main clientele was older folks- 50 years plus. One day an old guy walks in and BAM! I can smell booze from the back of the room. The entire room smelled like vodka, like cheap ass vodka.

My boss didn't bat an eye. Talks to the guy, sets up the apt. and sends me to take the guy home. I find a bad seal, don't remember which one, so the guy wants to come get his car to run some errands before we have it for a day to fix it.

When I pick him up he is straight up smashed. He has trouble finding me even though I'm driving HIS van. I flag him down and he has trouble walking over. He gets in, reeks of more booze and is slurring his speech.

My boss flat out tells me he doesn't care if this guy is drunk, hands the old man his keys and makes the apt. For later to fix the bad seal. This is 10:00 a.m. He takes off, too drunk to walk but still driving.

In the end he "fell asleep" and didn't make his appointment. My boss sent me to check on him and I could see him through the window, passed out on his couch with three empty pint bottles of vodka and a giant full ashtray on the coffee table. I think he was stocking up since he wasn't going to have his van and just drank all his cache. This was at 2:00 p.m.

Worst part? Came and did the same thing the next day because he blacked out so bad he thought it was sill Tuesday and didn't even remember getting his oil changed or agreeing to repair his car.

I had half my family almost killed by a drunk driver. The guy was plastered and belligerent, so the bar makes him leave. He drove his 18-wheeler across a 4 lane highway, and obliterates my brothers car. They had to be cut out of the wreckage.

Letting someone drive while wasted is like giving a crazy person a gun and then looking the other way when they walk into a crowded mall

I'm really sorry that happened to you, but I don't see how it's even remotely feasible for an average bar to keep an eye on every customer or how to keep them off the road even if you do know they're about to drive.

You can, but if you get so drunk you hurt somebody, the bartender/bar can be held partially responsible. People sue bars all of the time and win because they got drunk and fell down the steps or something like that. Most bars have insurance to cover this but it's definitely a reality

As someone who went to college, I can confirm this. There many times I'd wake up in the morning still drunk and have no idea, and a few of those I drove before I figured it out. Nowadays I get less drunk and make better plans for the morning when I do.